What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Originally, Isaac Newton divided the colours of the rainbow into not seven, but five colours: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet.

He added orange and indigo later out of a desire to match seven colours with seven notes on the diatonic scale. Presumably, it would take a while before anyone tried to take this to its logical 12TET conclusion and divided it into 12 colours.





Also of note, languages' understanding of colour tends to evolve in a surprisingly predictable manner.

1. Dark/cool, Light/warm colours
2. Red
3/4. Yellow and Green (Which one is first varies, but it's always one and then the other, never just skipping to the next stage)
5. Blue (Many languages don't reach this point until contact with another nation that has. Consequently, the word for "Blue" is frequently a loanword from another language.)
6. Brown
7. Purple, Pink, Orange, or Grey. (Notably, in English, "orange" wasn't really a thing until orange fruits reached Europe in the 15th century, and people decided that calling its colour "a yellowish red" didn't cut it.)

In addition, though foxes and tigers may have similar hues, tigers are generally considered orange, but foxes are more likely to be considered red because Europe knew about foxes long before we knew about the colour orange, but knowledge of tigers came after orange.

[Angrboda]

Koreans categorize people according to facial types modeled on animals. There's dog, bunny, deer, fox, wolf, turtle, and probably others.

One video described Yoona's face as deer-like, which it said is one of the most desirable, but I don't know if that's true.

[Fake Messiah]

Nicole Kidman paid her husband for staying sober

Before their wedding, Nicole Kidman and musician Keith Urban signed a contract: every year he stayed away from booze and cocaine he’d get $600,000.

So after 19 years, he got like $11 million.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Nicole Kidman paid her husband for staying sober

Before their wedding, Nicole Kidman and musician Keith Urban signed a contract: every year he stayed away from booze and cocaine he’d get $600,000.

So after 19 years, he got like $11 million.

I would have taken that deal!

Boru

[Jackalope]

No shit, I gave up cocaine and booze for free.

[Nanny]

I quit my job (technically I requested to agree to a separation). Stress level is so much less, even after two days of unemployment. Been taking care of finances and insurance and the like. Playing my first live poker session as a "pro" (haha) Wednesday.

Pro = it's something to do while waiting on interview results.

Oh, I have 2 interviews lined up this week.

[Mister Agenda]

Originally, Isaac Newton divided the colours of the rainbow into not seven, but five colours: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet.

He added orange and indigo later out of a desire to match seven colours with seven notes on the diatonic scale. Presumably, it would take a while before anyone tried to take this to its logical 12TET conclusion and divided it into 12 colours.

Also of note, languages' understanding of colour tends to evolve in a surprisingly predictable manner.

1. Dark/cool, Light/warm colours
2. Red
3/4. Yellow and Green (Which one is first varies, but it's always one and then the other, never just skipping to the next stage)
5. Blue (Many languages don't reach this point until contact with another nation that has. Consequently, the word for "Blue" is frequently a loanword from another language.)
6. Brown
7. Purple, Pink, Orange, or Grey. (Notably, in English, "orange" wasn't really a thing until orange fruits reached Europe in the 15th century, and people decided that calling its colour "a yellowish red" didn't cut it.)

In addition, though foxes and tigers may have similar hues, tigers are generally considered orange, but foxes are more likely to be considered red because Europe knew about foxes long before we knew about the colour orange, but knowledge of tigers came after orange.

Let's add octarine, jale, and ulfire.

[Fireball]

Orange as a color existed before the fruit arrived to the Old World. It was called tawny, but more brown than the fruit.

[Rev. Rye]

Orange as a color existed before the fruit arrived to the Old World. It was called tawny, but more brown than the fruit.

Maybe, but not in the English language. And I suspect that tawny would have been considered more brown than anything else. The colour itself would probably have been around before the orange was introduced, but English wouldn't have a word for it. It would have just blended in with other colours, like red or brown.

And speaking of colours blending in, Disney has (At least) two different hues of paint that it uses to have some of the more utilitarian parts of the park just blend in with the greenery or the sky: Go Away Green and Blending Blue. Notably, there are multiple shades of the former. That said, while we don't have an exact hex code for either, Sherwin Williams has two paints that seem to come close:

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Orange as a color existed before the fruit arrived to the Old World. It was called tawny, but more brown than the fruit.

The colour was named after the fruit. The fruit name has a Sanskrit origin, if memory serves.

Boru